About
PINC Technologies is a Pasadena-based Caltech spinout founded in 2023 that develops scalable nonlinear photonic integrated circuits for quantum computing applications. The company emerged from stealth in October 2025 with $6.8 million in seed funding led by BootstrapLabs, with participation from Catalus Capital and Convergent Ventures, to unlock scalable nonlinearity for photonic chips through its proprietary NanoPPLN platform. The NanoPPLN platform brings high-performance nonlinear optics to integrated photonic circuits, addressing the missing scalable nonlinearity in photonic integrated circuits and making nonlinear optics fully integrated and scalable. PINC's technology supports applications in quantum computing, optical sensing, artificial intelligence, data networks, biomedical devices, atomic clocks, lidar, and metrology. The seed funding will be used to scale production of its NanoPPLN chips and expand commercial partnerships in the quantum computing and photonic systems industries.
Quantum Specifications
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